Optimism In Candide

CandideCandide Anonymous Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually achieve happiness. In life, man must find a medium between what Martin (scholar and companion to Candide) calls the convulsions of anxiety and the lethargy of boredom (Richter

Candide: A Satire On The EnlightenmentCandide: A Satire on the Enlightenment fido37 Candide is an outlandishly humorous, far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the story of a young man?s adventures throughout the world, where he witnesses much evil and disaster. Throughout his travels, he adheres to the teachings of his tutor, Pangloss, believing that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Candide is Voltaire?s answer to what he saw as a

Against all oddsAn Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalistic effort to use philosophy in order to vindicate the ways of God to man (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will justify the ways of God to man (1.26). It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man. Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the Great Chain of Being (ll.33-34) and must accept that What